Evers' School Integration Case Moving in Mississippi

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    PRESS RELEASE 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
1TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE © NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

EVERS' SCHOOL INTEGRATION 
CASE MOVING IN MISSISSIPPI 

February 19, 1964 

JACKSON, MISS,--School integration came one step closer here this 
week, 

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit di- 
rected the Southern District Court of Mississippi to hear an NAACP 
Legal Defense Fund motion for preliminary injunction against jim 
crow schools in three Mississippi communities, 

Segregationists had argued that Mississippi schools are vol- 
untarily segregated, thereby infringing no constitutional rights, 

However, the Appeals Court pointed out that "the Mississippi 
Constitution requires maintenance of separate schools for white and 
colored children, 

"And it is precisely because of this state-enforced segrega- 
tion of schools under Mississippi law," the Court added, "that the 
District Court (Mississippi) erred in dismissing the complaint." 

Derrick Bell, Legal Defense Fund assistant counsel who is 
arguing the case, said that 63 Negro children are involved from 
Jackson, Biloxi and Leake County. 

Among them are Darrell Kenyatta and Reene Denise Evers, 
children of slain NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers. 

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